Canon PowerShot G9 Introduction Canon’s PowerShot G9 was announced in August 2007 alongside the EOS 40D and a raft of new compacts. There was no G8 – Canon skipped direct to the G9 which makes it the successor the last year’s G7. It comes just 11 months later and like previous PowerShot G Series models,…
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The Lumix DMC-L10 is Panasonic’s second digital SLR, and unlike its debut model, this one’s aimed squarely at the consumer market. Launched at the IFA trade show in Berlin during August 2007, the new L10 shares little more than a lens mount with Panasonic’s debut DSLR, the somewhat esoteric L1. So while both models are…
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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX33 is a slim 8.1 Megapixel compact with a 3.6x optically stabilised lens. Announced in July 2007, it comes just seven months after its predecessor the Lumix FX30. Like several of Panasonic’s July 2007 releases, the new FX33 greatly resembles its predecessor from the outside, but features a number of improvements under…
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The Canon Digital Ixus 860IS – or PowerShot SD870 IS Digital Elph as it’s known in North America – is an 8 Megapixel compact with a 3.8x optically-stabilised zoom lens and a large 3in screen. Announced in August 2007, it’s the successor to the popular Ixus 850IS / SD800 IS. The new 860IS / SD870…
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µ 790 SW / Stylus 790 SW intro The Olympus µ 790 SW, or Stylus 790 SW as it’s known in North America, is a 7.1 Megapixel compact camera with a 3x optical zoom lens and a 2.5in screen. Announced in August 2007, it’s the successor to the µ 770 SW (Stylus 770 SW), and…
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The Pentax Optio Z10 is an 8 Megapixel compact with a 7x optical zoom lens and 2.5in screen. Announced in August 2007, it has the highest zoom of any compact in the Pentax range at the time of writing. A longer than average zoom is certainly very useful for getting closer to distant subjects,…
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The Canon Wireless File Transmitter E3(A), or WFT-E3(A) for short, equips the EOS 40D and EOS 50D digital SLRs with Wifi capabilities, allowing you to transfer images wirelessly to a computer or even direct to a website or ftp server. The Wifi also lets you wirelessly remote control the camera, including a live preview…
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The Alpha A200 is Sony’s third DSLR and the successor to its debut model, the best-selling Alpha A100. Launched at CES in early January 2008, the A200 is Sony’s new entry-level DSLR, and as we learnt at the PMA show a few weeks later, the base model upon which at least two subsequent DSLRs would…
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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 was announced in January 2008, exactly one year after its predecessor, the enormously successful Lumix DMC-TZ3. The earlier TZ3 was arguably the perfect travel camera, a pocketable compact which managed to squeeze in nothing less than a 10x optical zoom lens complete with image stabilisation and a generous 3in screen. It…
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The Alpha DSLR-A300 and Alpha DSLR-A350 are Sony’s fourth and fifth DSLRs, launched together at the annual PMA show in late January 2008. Since the original A100 was replaced by the A200 in early January, Sony now has four models in the Alpha range: the entry-level A200, the semi-pro A700, and positioned in-between, the new…
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